Human Rights And Statelessness I N P E N I N S U L AR M AL AYS I A research (Debrita Yanieta Santoso, 2022) adopts a rights-based approach to explore the legal consequences of the State’s responsibility to confer Indonesian citizenship for children of undocumented Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia. Thirdly, while the previous studies examine both adult and child stateless populations, the following studies focus specifically on childhood statelessness, also using theoretical, legal frameworks and secondary data. Rodziana Mohamed Razali (2017) provides a holistic overview of the recent jurisprudential developments on childhood statelessness, along with possible solutions to address childhood statelessness, primarily for foundlings (children born to unknown parents), children separated from parents with no proof of parentage, and children born outside of wedlock. They suggest that more engagement with legislators and judges to expose them to the human side of statelessness should be pursued, along with a consistent push to reform citizenship provisions that contain discriminatory elements. This is to develop jurisprudential patterns in court that can act as safeguards against childhood statelessness. Likewise, Roslina Che Soh@Yusoff et. al. (2019) evaluate the extent of rights of stateless children to acquire citizenship in cases involving unregistered births, children born out of wedlock, foundlings, and children with parents of uncertain immigration status. They address crucial gaps and provide recommendations on the current legislation relating to the protection of these groups of children. Fourthly, Azizah Mohd (2011) focuses on foundlings, analysing the laws related to the protection of the abandoned child’s right to identity, especially to name, registration of birth, and citizenship under both civil and Islamic law in Malaysia. It is found that the Federal Constitution and Islamic law both provide a good legal framework for abandoned children to acquire citizenship, but issues arise in the implementation of certain laws by relevant government bodies (e.g. JPN, KDN). Chen (2003) similarly examines foundlings under the Federal Constitution and international human rights provisions. Lastly, Nur Athirah Syuhada Hasni and Nurshahirah Azman (2020) use a qualitative approach to situate the statelessness of adopted children and ways to confer citizenship under the Malaysian legal provisions, and then 24